Mahadev Konar

Mahadev Konar is an accomplished engineering executive with extensive experience in distributed computing and big data technologies. Currently serving as VP Engineering and previously as Senior Director of Engineering at Instacart since 2019, Mahadev has been instrumental in supporting infrastructure, data, and platform initiatives. Prior to Instacart, Mahadev co-founded Hortonworks, where contributions included work on Hadoop, YARN, ZooKeeper, and Ambari from July 2011 to April 2019. Additionally, Mahadev is a former member of the Apache Software Foundation, serving as a committer and PMC member for both Apache ZooKeeper and Hadoop from October 2006 to January 2019. Earlier experience includes a role as Principal Engineer at Yahoo!, contributing significantly to Apache projects and managing large-scale clusters. Mahadev holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Stony Brook University.